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we have a lot of thought that
said the united states women's soccer team is seeking their third olympic gold
medal but a lot of controversy has come off the pitch involving
the highly controversial
uh... united states goalkeeper hope solo and one of the true pioneers of women's
soccer when she won the world cup for the united states in nineteen ninety
nine
brandi chastain who's currently a analyst
on n_b_c_
now this is for sports illustrated what to bring the chest and say exactly to be
criticized from hope so
uh... sports illustrated was quoted as saying have quoting chastain racial
buehler with to give away their as a defender your responsibilities are
defend when the ball and then keep possession and that's something rachel
buehler needs to improve on during mister mandel hope solo follow this up
with a series of tweets to her five hundred and thirty eight
thousand-plus followers
here's the uh... here's a few of them firstly it's too bad we can't have
commentators who better represents the team and knows more about the game anti
tweets at brandy
chest and then she follows up layoff commentating
about defending and goal keeping
until you get more educated at brandi chastain
the game has changed from a decade ago
it's important to our fans to enjoy the spirit of the olympics it's not possible
when someone on-air is saying that a player is the worst offender i'd feel
bad for our fans that have to push a new especially because that arlo white is
fantastic at brandi chastain
should be helping to grow the sport
now it should be also noted that during the olympic qualifying the united states
out for their opponent's twenty-seven
tend not playing
and she criticized brandi chastain this hope solo through
uh... it tweaked
which also read he bring to you find anything positive in our game curious
minds over here now as i said before
brandi chastain
is that
has always been a soccer legend
and women's soccer and again a true pioneer now
many questions are arising is this going to be a distraction for the team
uh... is it bad timing for these comments uh... this was afew days before
they played not the north korea they wanted a wanted nothing everyone back at
the game-winning goal
but just thinkwrap criticize
racial dealer and if you noticed
do ordain say anyting hope solo was sticking up for her teammate but is this
the right thing to do is this the right time for all this to come out
so my ass you guys but i also ask our women's soccer correspondent john at a
role sitting in the director's chair john with them
uh... i'd definitely not the women's side sacrifice
uh... done not in a separate line after obviously not look i'm not good at the
moment speak too much about the validity of the criticism those initially
launched by either the commentators
you can
you can say he was wasn't accurate was it not antique hope so there's a lot
more about
the evolution of women's soccer but i do but
i do think that the points you brought up about the timing
into being a stretch that includes both the points and i think that
the olympics are about more than just
a competition
is it a few other issues that i will get into right now
where i think that people are forgetting that
it's a battle something more to dot all these countries coming together it's
about spirit
the other competitions the necessarily have like the world championships
various sports you not like this i think that
it's fine to criticize the commentators
but if you're an athlete and you have the podium that she does i think that
you need it sounded better
weasel afterward and criticize her
she was also quoted as saying on media day prior to the game against north
korea
it's not about what made me unhappy it's not about one game i have my belief that
the best commentators and the best analyst
to be analyzing connell index com world cups it's only my opinion
you could take you to leave it to be honest so it's my opinion i think they
listen commentator's for bring energy and excitement passion for the game and
a lot of knowledge and i think it's important to help build the game and i
don't think brandy has that
this is my opinion and nothing else really matters to be honest
on that is a small team of october at the end of
uh... mean have you noticed that it's somewhat of a slippery slope when
and it's a sticky situation when age for player and again they were team it's
pretty chest and hopes all of the former teammates
and as always it's slippery slope when
you
you have to be on somewhat and i think ivankov soul is expecting brandi
chastain to just be a homer which is obviously the worst way to go about it
you have to be critical you have to
you have to have a good perspective on the game to be
fair and jost and again be critical of what happens in the campus a
are warwickshire b was really trying hard even though she had a giveaway know
it's like collette associate
again always a giveaway
hope solo also very opinionated as you can see issues also kicked off the two
thousand seven world cup team
for criticizing for coach
ben coach
greg right
show always be controversial but we want to hear your thoughts will be those in
the comments section below
and do you think that it was
just you think it was fair of hope solo tu
attack for former ctv brandy testing on twitter or
shouldn't just be thrown out
she should keep all these discussions private
and leave it at that